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Kids need God to build values in schools

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Saturday June 22, 2013 6:27 AM

I respond to the June 13
Dispatch editorial “Don’t mix report cards and religion.” In 2011, my grandsons graduated
from Bishop Watterson High School, and some of their friends attended St. Charles Preparatory
School.

We pay tuition, have the freedom to practice our religion and students receive credits for
theology class.

Having God as a prominent figure in their lives helps keep our children focused on religion,
friends, country and family values.

At one time, God and prayer were part of the daily lives of public-school children. We allowed
one woman to take this away from our precious children. We have far too many godless children and
adults in our country today.

When we say and believe that Catholics, Protestants and Jews worship the god of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, and the Muslims worship the God of Abraham, we are saying that we believe in the same
God. We are the vast majority. We need to fight for the rights of freedom for religion.

Does anyone know the percentage of high-school graduates from Columbus City Schools before God
was removed, as compared to present-day numbers? Would we still have an ever-growing number of
individuals using guns to murder innocent children and adults in schools, colleges, theaters, etc.,
if they had known God, even a little?

The painting of Jesus that hung in the Jackson school hurt no one, but I’m sure many children
passed by daily and received comfort from that painting.

Our children need someone to believe in at their time of need, and if they know God and believe
in him, they know that he believes in them as well.

More than 96 percent of Watterson and St. Charles graduates go on to college and some of the
others go to the military.

We falter, even with God in our lives, but when he is there every day and we know he is there
for us, waiting to help us through our problems and everyday concern, he takes on a great share of
what pains our lives and our hearts.

Maybe, just maybe, it is many years past the time for “don’t mix report cards and religion” and
time to bring them back together.